Good news! The United Nations is committed to solving all the world’s ills. Including, of course, the deadly plague of junk food. No problem too small for these corruptocrats.
The Associated Press has the details:
The U.N. health agency says world leaders will discuss efforts to clamp down on junk food marketing to children when they meet in New York on Sept 19-20.
The World Health Organization says heads of state will use the U.N. General Assembly meeting to talk about limiting the number and type of ads that children are exposed to.
WHO says 43 million preschool children around the world are overweight or obese. Experts talk of a “fat tsunami” that is already causing millions of premature deaths each year.
Bjorn-Inge Larsen of the Norwegian Directorate of Health told reporters Friday that he expects voluntary measures limiting junk food advertising to eventually evolve into laws banning the practice in the same way that has occurred with tobacco.
“Mommy, mommy, I’d like a Twinkie in my lunch box.”
“Sorry, honey. Have this nutritious and United Nations-approved Ban Ki-Moon Pie instead.”
By the way, this is just a guess on our part, but we’re willing to bet they’d kill for some Twinkies and Snickers bars in Darfur right about now.
Source: Associated Press
This post was last modified on June 17, 2021
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This is crazy! Americans will never go for banning toys from Happy Meals! Oh wait...
You know what the worst part of government-dictated diets are? It's when they're wrong! Now, I'm not about to say Twinkies are good for you, but remember how the U.S. government promoted grains and breads and downplayed meat, particularly red meat? It pushed through the Lipid Hypothesis, which, if you go by the actual data, is a bold-faced LIE. How many millions of people has the government killed because of it?
If you wonder why Americans are getting fatter and kids are getting diabetes, maybe, just maybe, part of it is because the government has recommended the same kind of diet you use to fatten up pigs on a farm. And now Princeton or whoever studied 1000s of previous studies and found No Link between unprocessed red meat and heart disease. Shocking? Not really when you know the Lipid Hypothesis is a lie. Show me proof that fat causes heart disease. You can't. And if you don't believe me, look it up for yourself.
Amen! Somebody else actually gets it! Beef, beans and potatoes has not hurt me one bit. Pork ribs or roast? I love either one. Fried chicken, with the skin on, is also a favorite. A good dinner for me is, as an example, pork roast with mashed potatoes and gravy, a small serving of a veggie like green beans, and bread. Or fried chicken served with coleslaw and pinto beans. Or pinto beans cooked with salt pork or a hamhock, even bacon works, and cornbread.
The point here is I do not eat very many vegetables, rabbit food is what I call it, I eat meat, beans, potatoes and a little bread to soak up the gravy. I have never had a weight problem, I do not have diabetes. I used to have a blood pressure problem but it went away after my divorce last year. Until a couple of years ago, before the "other" problem started, I never had trouble with blood pressure. Cholestrol? What is that? I never heard of cholestrol until some gooberment paid fool of a doctor said there was such a thing!
And the really funny thing is I get a physical every year and my doctor says I am going to die if I don't change the way I live. Well NO SHIT BERTHA!! All of us are going to die one of these days, that is just a fact of life. But I am going to eat what I want, drink what I want, live the way I want. Although, I did quit smoking a couple of months ago so maybe I'll live a little longer and keep paying for those physicals. Ya think that is what doctors are really worried about?
OK, this is going to get me in trouble so Iapologize in advance. What I am about to say is an objective view, and does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the writer:
We are wanting to cure all disease, or at least prolong the lives of those affected to the nth degree. We want to prevent car crash victims with seatbelts, beter made cars, airbags, etc. We want to improve the health of everyone on the planet, hopefully eliminating heart disease, cancer, diabetes and hypertension. We want to reduce or eliminate malaria by putting nets on possible victims, and give clean water to those who have non, and prevent disease and death from the contaminated water they have now. And on, and on and on. Safer building, better warnings, always to save lives. Then they complain that the population is too high, and we need to quit haveing kids. Seriously? Even in war, far more soldiers no surive traumatic injuriy, though they may return home requiring extensive caregiving and medical management. The push is to save everyone's life, and live longer. We are removing all the population control measures that nature has in place. And what will happen when we DO finally die off, and there is no younger generation to take over, because we quit having kids?
It is amazing... kill the old and the unborn (or prevent their borns in masses) in order to protect the Planet (or whatever) YET prolong the life of those in the middle... but like you said who comes after if there is shortages of births? And prolonging the life of the middle will eventually lead to a lot of old people which a lot of liberals don't have any concern for... It doesn't make sense. It is insanity.
Making the world safe from twinkies.
Uhm... really? Wars, rumors of wars, genocides, famines, droughts, injustices...
war on junk food?! Really?
What is the mentality here? Banning junk food is easier I suppose that ending world hunger, or creating world peace.
Controlling what people eat, far easier than controlling people's propensity for wars...
Unless their theory is that less junk food less wars?! But then how can you explain muslims who more than likely never smelled a twinkie ever?
Weird. Liberals are just weird.
If they are as effective at stopping junk food marketing to kids as they they are at stopping genocide Twinkie the Kid has nothing to worry about.
Ya but while he's getting his twinkie he has to worry about being raped by a dude in a blue helmet.
Yes I agree, the UN is pretty useless we should move it to the Marshall Islands and defund everything we do with it...everything. It was, is, and always will be a useless marxist socialist podium for power grabs POS and we have no business being wrapped up with this thugocracy. TSA can kindly keep its hands off of my junk and the UN can kindly keep its paws off of my 'junk food.'
Shut up and eat your Soylent Green!
"Shut up and eat your Soylent Green!"
LOL!
But first we need to fatten them up with Twinkies and Cheez Doodles!
There is absolutely no reason why America is part of the United Nations and their corrupt worthless self interests. The United Nations should be stationed in a neutral country and each country that wants to belong pays its own way instead of coming to America with a laundry list of "I wants"
They should relocate to some nice place like N. Korea, Northern Siberia or Iran.